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M51.14
Billable

Intervertebral disc disorders with radiculopathy, thoracic region

Chapter 13: Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue

Billable Code

M51.14 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.

Referenced in Diagnoses

Conditions that use this ICD-10 code in their documentation

View documentation for degenerative disk disease thoracic
degenerative disk disease thoracic
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Degenerative Disc Disease of the Thoracic Spine

View documentation for thoracic radiculopathy
thoracic radiculopathy
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Thoracic Radiculopathy

Additional Information from Parent Codes

The following information may apply to this code from its parent codes in the ICD-10 hierarchy. This information is important for proper coding and classification.

Inclusion Terms

1 item

From M51.1:

  • Sciatica due to intervertebral disc disorder

Excludes1

2 items

From M51.1:

  • lumbar radiculitis NOS (M54.16)
  • sciatica NOS (M54.3)

Excludes2

12 items

From M00-M99:

  • arthropathic psoriasis (L40.5-)
  • certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96)
  • certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)
  • compartment syndrome (traumatic) (T79.A-)
  • complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A)
  • congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)
  • endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88)
  • injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88)
  • neoplasms (C00-D49)
  • symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94)

From M51:

  • cervical and cervicothoracic disc disorders (M50.-)
  • sacral and sacrococcygeal disorders (M53.3)

Notes

1 item

From M00-M99:

  • Use an external cause code following the code for the musculoskeletal condition, if applicable, to identify the cause of the musculoskeletal condition
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